We have to find a way to fix our deficit and if we all pay 10% no refunds no audits needed because there are no deductions no forms to file we will pay our deficit down and cut federal spending.

The Government is running out of money to manage it's departmental budgets, and then expects the middle / lower class workers to accept a pay freeze to help manage The Budget. If legislators are so concerned, perhaps they should consider cutting their own salaries first. Give back to the American public that which they have taken over the years, and preserve their congressional dignity. A Congress that would Serve American would earn my respect.

A tax hike on the middle class could result in slowing retail sales for the holidays, and could affect business planning and hiring. "We could go back into recession. It would be a bad thing," If lawmakers fail to agree on the tax and spending issues associated with the "fiscal cliff" by year-end deadlines. Can we get 1 millions signature before the year is out?

More Losing Social Security to Student Loan Wage Garnishments. The student loan indebtedness problem continues to grow in exponential ways. Forget about the noose of debt from private student loans for now. Let's focus on the frightening loss of needed Social Security benefits from people now eligible for Social Security but with delinquent student loans. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-rhode/more-losing-social-security My SSDI check is being garnished. It was tough before, now it's unbearable. Can't buy the medications I need, food, household essentials, pay utilities. All I can do is pay rent then I'm broke for the rest of the month. Bi-polar, PTSD, Depression, Spinal stenosis disc degenerative disease, High blood pressure. I worked all my life and now I can't. NO MONEY TO LIVE..

The US is facing "falling off the financial cliff" on January 1, 2013. The American public "hired" Congress to make sure there is a fair, long term solution that will avert this disaster to our economy.

On Quest Means Business, Warren Buffet suggested that the tax rate for the top 2% should be 50%. Nina Dos Santos remarked that the 50% tax rate for the wealthy in the UK. I think is is only fair that the top 2% in the U.S. should pay the same rates!

I was not personally affected by this when I first retired but during the past 24 years of retirement my cost of living increases have not begun to catch up to the increase in prices.

im starting this petition to keep the government from stopping the mortgage interest deduction . they will remove incentive to purchase a home , slowing the housing market , prices will drop again , the ecomomy will falter and go into resession. only investors will be buying houses to rent out , since so many people will be renting , the supply and demand will cause rent prices to spike. the rich get richer again . please sign if you like your deduction . personally i will lose about a 10,000.00 deduction per year for my home and my rental property . instead of a refund i will be owing more taxes at the end of the year . seems like they are continuously taking from the responsible hard working people to give to the ones that arent .

Select Portfolio Servicing (SPS) is my mortgage servicier. As a major servicer for a now-defunct mortgage company [FIrst Franklin] I have been denied several times for some type of mortgage modification. I know that SPS had people on their payroll that were part and parcel of the robo-signing that was occurring. My major concern is [despite several inquiries] I have been told that I cannot know the name of the bank that presently holds my mortgage (despite it being part of one of the mbe's). We just want to STAY IN OUR HOMES. Banks have the power to reduce mortgages and modify.

Congress needs to extend federal emergency unemployment benefits before they expire in December. There are more than 2 million Americans, who like me, cannot find a job, have expensive bills to pay, and we are still struggling to make ends meet.

This is a petition to save Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security for all Seniors and others who expect to be covered by these protections in old-age against their being compromised, privatized, or otherwise changed in some fundamental way that could affect years of coverage, amount of coverage, and protections offered therein.

Entergy customers are still paying for damages after Katrina, and Rita. It is time to stop paying for past hurricane damages. Entergy is the only utility company doing this to there customers that I know of.